Days after the Supreme Court cleared his name in a so-called spy scandal, former ISRO scientist S Nambi Narayanan alleged on Wednesday that he had to undergo "untold misery" and "suffering" when he was jailed. Reiterating that the "ISRO spy scandal" was no such case at all, Narayanan told the media that those who plotted the story should have been a little clever.

"This was nothing but a fabricated case. They found out that I had sold a yet-to-be-created cryogenic technology to an enemy nation. How is it possible to sell something when it was never there?" he said. "I fought this legal battle for so long because I wanted to tell people that I was not a spy. Right from the day this case surfaced, I was sure that this is no spy case. That has been achieved," added Narayanan.